More professors now embrace Wikipedia in the classroom

Image:  About a decade ago, Amin Azzam, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, often told his medical students not to research health information on Wikipedia out of concern for the website’s reliability. But a student once looked at him “like he was crazy,” which made him rethink that stance. “Look, we all go there first as students,” the student told Azzam. “Why are you fighting us? Why don’t you help us make it better?” Azzam considered the...